[Infowarrior] - Roll your own Pirate Bay

[Richard Forno]

http://gizmodo.com/there-are-gonna-be-9280928-pirate-bays-because-anyone-c-1673260311

In the wake of a police raid in Sweden that shut down the Pirate Bay as we know it, a number of opportunistic torrent sites have created clones. We've said before, Pirate Bay clones are potentially problematic. Nevertheless, Isohunt just launched a tool that makes it confusingly easy to set up your very own open source clone. I tried it;It works.

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The popular torrent search engine created a database with the "top content" from the Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents, and its own site along with a tool that made it relatively straight forward to build your own, personal Pirate Bay "with minimal knowledge of how internet and websites work and some server basic equipment."

Isohunt is calling the whole project the Open Bay, and all of the code is indeed out there in the open on Github. All things told, it's only 30-megabytes worth of data.

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